New York polio case is the ‘tip of the iceberg,’ hundreds of others could be infected, health official says
New York's top health official warned the polio case in an unvaccinated adult and the detection of the virus sewage
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Polio found in sewage samples outside New York City suggests it’s spreading in the community, health officials says
The findings come after an unvaccinated adult in Rockland County contracted polio, suffered paralysis and had to be hospitalized last
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Biden to sign executive order to help cover costs for women traveling for abortions
The Biden administration has considered using emergency public health powers to protect access to abortion pill, mifepristone. Source link
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U.S. to release 786,000 additional monkeypox vaccine doses as outbreak spreads
HHS Secretary Xavier Beccerra said the federal government will announce allocations of the 786,000 vaccine doses to local authorities on
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WHO declares rapidly spreading monkeypox outbreak a global health emergency
The WHO last issued a global health emergency in response to Covid-19 in January 2020. Source link
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Biden could declare a public health emergency to expand abortion access, but it would face a tremendous legal fight
The nation's leading reproductive rights groups are calling for the White House to use every power at its disposal to
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U.S. scientists are enrolling nearly 40,000 patients in 4-year $1.2 billion study of long Covid
The study, Recover, aims to complete enrollment of 40,000 people and launch clinical trials on potential treatments by the end
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WHO says monkeypox cases triple in Europe in two weeks, urgent action needed to contain spread
"Urgent and coordinated action is imperative if we are to turn a corner in the race to reverse the ongoing
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U.S. to deploy nearly 300,000 monkeypox vaccine doses to fight outbreak
The U.S. will deploy nearly 300,000 monekypox vaccine doses in the coming weeks in an effort to stamp out an
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